Get line number while using grep
GrepLineGrep Problem Overview
I am using grep recursive to search files for a string, and all the matched files and the lines containing that string are print on the terminal. But is it possible to get the line numbers of those lines too??
ex: presently what I get is /var/www/file.php: $options = "this.target", but what I am trying to get is /var/www/file.php: 1142 $options = "this.target";, well where 1142 would be the line number containing that string.
Syntax I am using to grep recursively is sudo grep -r 'pattern' '/var/www/file.php'
One more question is, how do we get results for not equal to a pattern. Like all the files but not the ones having a certain string?
Grep Solutions
Solution 1 - Grep
grep -n SEARCHTERM file1 file2 ...
Solution 2 - Grep
Line numbers are printed with grep -n:
grep -n pattern file.txt
To get only the line number (without the matching line), one may use cut:
grep -n pattern file.txt | cut -d : -f 1
Lines not containing a pattern are printed with grep -v:
grep -v pattern file.txt
Solution 3 - Grep
If you want only the line number do this:
grep -n Pattern file.ext | gawk '{print $1}' FS=":"
Example:
$ grep -n 9780545460262 EXT20130410.txt | gawk '{print $1}' FS=":"
48793
52285
54023
Solution 4 - Grep
grep -A20 -B20 pattern file.txt
Search pattern and show 20 lines after and before pattern
Solution 5 - Grep
grep -nr "search string" directory
This gives you the line with the line number.
Solution 6 - Grep
In order to display the results with the line numbers, you might try this
grep -nr "word to search for" /path/to/file/file
The result should be something like this:
linenumber: other data "word to search for" other data
Solution 7 - Grep
When working with vim you can place
function grepn() {
grep -n $@ /dev/null | awk -F $':' '{t = $1; $1 = $2; $2 = t; print; }' OFS=$':' | sed 's/^/vim +/' | sed '/:/s// /' | sed '/:/s// : /'
}
in your .bashrc and then
grepn SEARCHTERM file1 file2 ...
results in
vim +123 file1 : xxxxxxSEARCHTERMxxxxxxxxxx
vim +234 file2 : xxxxxxSEARCHTERMxxxxxxxxxx
Now, you can open vim on the correspondending line (for example line 123) by simply copying
vim +123 file1
to your shell.